By Priya Adhyaru Majithia Girls are facing puberty at the tender age of eight when they are as yet unaware of the physiological, psychological and social impact of this major change in their life. Blame obesity, stress and wrong food, say experts. They said that this had forced the medical fraternity to lower vaccination recommendation […]
Updates on the management of cervical pre-cancer discussed at Obs-Gyne expo
Currently cervical cancer accounts for 10% of all cancers worldwide, ranking as the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world. According to Prof. F. Xavier Bosch from the Cancer Epidemiology and Research Program at the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona, the idea that the MENA region is at low risk from gynaecological cancers […]
Vaccinations Attack Cervical Cancer
By Bana Qabbani DUBAI // Expatriate schoolgirls are to be targeted by health officials aiming to increase the number of pupils who receive vaccinations for cervical cancer. Although uptake has been high among Emirati girls, officials say far fewer students from abroad have opted to take the treatment. Now in its fourth year, the school-based […]
When It Comes to Natural Health for Children, We’re Living in a Police State
Increasingly, state governments are determining what treatments a child can and cannot have—regardless of parents’ wishes. Three shocking stories prove the point. In April 2003, Barbara Jensen took her son Parker, then twelve years old, to an oral surgeon to have a small growth removed from his tongue. The growth was diagnosed as Ewing’s sarcoma, […]
A little protection can be a dangerous thing
By Jacky Jones SECOND OPINION: HPV vaccination programme makes no economic sense, writes JACKY JONES THE HSE is offering a new human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programme to young girls in first and second year at secondary school. The organisation plans to immunise more than 46,000 girls in 2011, at a cost of €4 million. Does […]
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